Comedies
Molière
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Moliere, who is to French comedy what Shakespeare is to English drama, needs only to be read to be appreciated, and few authors appeal to a larger public. To all it may be said, Read him in French if possible; but there are still many to whom a translation will always be the only accessible or the most agreeable form of Moliere. Besides, so broad a moralist and humorist is fit for many languages and peoples, and there seems little reason for the rarity of dramatic representation of Moliere in English but the school-notion of giving him as a means solely of displaying French acquirement. Thousands more could enjoy these great comedies if given in English, and it has been one of the objects of this translation to facilitate such renderings. It has been specially written and carefully revised, with a view to briskness of language and suitability for speaking on the stage. Few will question that the selection given in this volume includes most of Molifere's best work, several other masterly plays containing matter which could hardly be represented in England at the present day.
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